1st Edition
Gender, State and Social Power in Contemporary Indonesia Divorce and Marriage Law
By Kate O'Shaughnessy
Copyright 2009
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines gender, state and social power in Indonesia, focusing in particular on state regulation of divorce from 1965 to 2005 and its impact on women. Indonesia experienced high divorce rates in the 1950s and 1960s, followed by a remarkable decline. Already falling divorce rates were reinforced by the 1974 Marriage Law, which for the first time regulated marriage for both Muslim and... Read more
Introduction Part 1: Legal Contexts Of Divorce 1. Gender And Law: Shaping Female Legal Subjectivity 2. Divorce, Property Relations And Power Part 2: Discourses Of Divorce 3. Divorce And Shame 4. Marital Rights And Obligations Part 3: Implications Of Divorce 5. Women’s Agency: Acquiescence, Co-Optation And Resistance 6. Modernity, Religion, and Nation: Divorce and the Production of Gendered Identities. Conclusion. Bibliography.
Biography
Kate O’Shaughnessy is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Western Australia. She works for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra.
